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TIL in four boroughs of New York City, excluding Staten Island, there has been a 25 to 35 percent reduction in alcohol-related car accidents since Uber came to town in 2011.

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XWWr TIL that Monty Python inspired not only the word “spam”, but also the names of 7 asteroids, a programming language, a species of lemur, and a mutant gene in flies.
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